(December 31, 2022 at 9:53 pm)LinuxGal Wrote:(December 31, 2022 at 9:46 pm)Belacqua Wrote: Ukraine has lost the political parties that opposed Zelensky, because he shut them down. It has lost the freedom to criticize Zelensky in the media. It has lost the ability to gather in Ukrainian Orthodox Churches to practice freedom of religion.That frequently happens in wartime. Even the United States turned into a military dictatorship during the Big One. And everyone was on board. Time for democracy later when people aren't getting blown up while they sleep.
Well, hey, people getting blown up in their sleep is just something that happens in war, right? We can put up with it for a while.
For example Ukraine has been bombing civilian areas of the Donbass since 2014. Since that time, the US has exercised veto power over Ukrainian elections, Zelensky has ended civil rights, and the IMF and BlackRock have taken over the Ukrainian economy. And none of those actions have stopped civilian deaths in the Donbass. Everybody here is on board with that, right?